During the second half of the 2025 spring semester, our students worked on two sites in Lebanon. The assignments were to develop a typology for a school that can occasionally serve as a shelter, as is often the case in Lebanon during times of conflict.
Special thanks to the team at Foster and Partners for welcoming us in London and joining us in Delft: Andy Bow, Sarah Abiad, and Rand Ghobril. Thanks also to the team of Buro Happold in London for welcoming us, Antonio Rovera and Nyomi Rowsell.
Thanks for some amazing lectures: Holger Techen (Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences), Vincent Buhagiar (University of Malta), Danielle Krikorian (University of Birmingham), Joud Keyyali (CARE International), and Frieda Atieh (SABIS schools).
Thanks also to Ricardo Oliveira of Rothoblaas for the lecture and workshop.
We had some great colleagues of TU Delft joining: Thanks to Elham Nia and Zhikai Peng for your lectures. Thanks to our teachers Gilbert Koskamp, Joost Woertman, Rocío Conesa Sánchez, and Francesca Guarnieri. And thanks to our consultants for structural design and climate design: Peter Teeuw,Elham Nia, Anne Struiksma, Siebe Broersma, Zhikai Peng, Simona Bianchi, Stijn Brancart, Dirk Visser, Silke Prinsse, Julia Schönwälder, and Rik Rozendaal.
